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OSCE Chairman expresses strong support for active OSCE role in Ukraine, Secretary General returns to Kyiv
Publishing date: 6 December 2004
Content type: Press release
Where we are: Summits / Ministerial Councils
What we do: Democratization, Elections
SOFIA, 6 December 2004- The OSCE Chairman-in-Office, Bulgarian Foreign Minister Solomon Passy, called for an active OSCE role in helping Ukraine with the re-run of its presidential elections and asked OSCE Secretary General Jan Kubis to return to Kyiv...
OSCE PA President urges Georgia to hold separate parliamentary and presidential elections
Publishing date: 2 December 2003
Content type: Press release
Where we are: Summits / Ministerial Councils, OSCE Mission to Georgia (closed)
What we do: Conflict prevention and resolution, Elections
MAASTRICHT, 2 December 2003- OSCE Parliamentary Assembly President Bruce George stressed the importance of forthcoming elections in Georgia and said it would be not be possible to hold parliamentary elections on the same day as the presidential...
OSCE foreign ministers pledge immediate financial assistance for Georgian elections
Publishing date: 2 December 2003
Content type: Press release
Where we are: Summits / Ministerial Councils, OSCE Mission to Georgia (closed)
What we do: Democratization, Elections
MAASTRICHT, 2 December 2003- Foreign ministers from OSCE participating States have pledged to provide more than five million euros in immediate assistance to Georgia to help the country organize presidential and parliamentary elections.
OSCE document foresees action against risks of ammunition stockpiles
Publishing date: 1 December 2003
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Chairmanship, Summits / Ministerial Councils, Permanent Council, OSCE Secretariat
MAASTRICHT, 1 December 2003- The Foreign Ministers of the 55 OSCE states today endorsed a new OSCE Document dealing with risks arising from surplus stockpiles of conventional ammunition, explosive material and detonating devices. The OSCE Document...
OSCE foreign ministers' meeting begins with focus on terrorism and human trafficking
Publishing date: 1 December 2003
Content type: Press release
Where we are: Summits / Ministerial Councils
MAASTRICHT, 1 December 2003- Foreign ministers from the 55 OSCE participating States gathered in Maastricht on Monday for their annual Ministerial Council, which will focus on threats to security and stability in the 21st century. The two-day...
President of the OSCE PA appeals to Georgian authorities
Publishing date: 30 November 2003
Content type: Press release
Where we are: Summits / Ministerial Councils
MAASTRICHT, 30 November 2003- The President of the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly, Bruce George, will meet in Maastricht the acting President of Georgia, Nino Burjanadze, who will attend the Ministerial Council Meeting of the OSCE in Maastricht...
OSCE agrees Charter on Preventing Terrorism
Publishing date: 7 December 2002
Content type: Press release
Where we are: Summits / Ministerial Councils
What we do: Countering terrorism
PORTO, 7 December 2002- The OSCE ended its 10th Ministerial Council on Saturday by adopting an OSCE Charter on Preventing and Combating Terrorism and agreeing guidelines to meet new challenges to security in the 21st century...